One would think that when visiting one of the best zoos in the world, one would look at the animals rather than the trees, but no, not me; I emerged from my visit to Singapore Zoo with more pictures of plants and trees than of animals. One of my lucky finds was this pretty decomposing leaf lying on top of a much bigger leaf. The bright afternoon ( Read more... )

And now for an Australian cliché photo that was actually taken in Singapore... Surely that's original, right? :-)


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Nearly three months ago I arrived in Singapore, exhausted from several weeks' hard work but looking forward to meeting both old and new friends and visiting beautiful places in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. Now I'm back in Singapore, equally exhausted as on my first arrival here (if for entirely different reasons), and similarly excited about ( Read more... )

Singapore, part 3: In which your intrepid heroine gets up close and personal with spiders, crabs, mosquitoes, giant lizards and big cats.

I feel it incumbent upon me to tell you about my recent sight-seeing experiences, to dispel the notion that I'm spending my entire holiday inside shopping malls and restaurants. True, I'm spending a lot of time ( Read more... )

Singapore, part 2: In which I share some uninteresting suckiness about my main occupation here in Singapore -- being a total hedonist.

In my previous post I promised you a report on the unbridled hedonism that characterises my current stay in Singapore. You'll find that report below, although I should warn you that you'll probably find it a lot ( Read more... )

Singapore, part 1: In which I wax none too lyrical about the New Year's Day from hell, a wedding, wedding photography and my new favourite city in Asia.

Well, hello everyone ( Read more... )